Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb

Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb (10 April 1823-13 December 1862) was a Brigadier-General of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War and the brother of Confederate politician Howell Cobb. From 8 February 1861 to 17 February 1862, he served in the Confederate Congress from Georgia.

Biography
Thomas R.R. Cobb was born in Jefferson County, Georgia in 1823, and he graduated from Franklin College in 1841 before becoming a lawyer. From 1849 to 1857, he was a reporter of the Supreme Court of Georgia, and he was an ardent secessionist, attending the secession convention of the Georgia state legislature. He was one of the founders of the University of Georgia School of Law, and he served in the Confederate Congress from 1861 to 1862. In the late summer of 1861, he raised Cobb's Legion, which suffered heavy losses at the Battle of Antietam during the Maryland campaign of 1862. During the Battle of Fredericksburg, he was mortally wounded in the thigh by a Union artillery shell and killed.